TAA/Australian Airlines 25 Year Club Inc ABN: 25 953 761 724 www.taamuseum.org.au 7 York Street, Airport West 3042 9280 8113 or 9280 8114 [email protected]Page 1 President’s Report The typo gremlins crept into the last Newsletter regarding the number of B727-76’s we had in service. It was six [VH-TJA, B, C, D, E & F], not 4. Thanks to all the members who very kindly drew my attention to the typo. As reported in the last Newsletter, four members had been elected at the AGM [Terry Masocco, Paul Gluschenko, Dorothy Duan and Sam Favazza]. An existing Committeeman, Jim Collins [Treasurer], has since resigned from Committee [and as a Volunteer] due to medical reasons following a long operation. We all wish Jim well for the future and thank him for the many years of service to the 25 Year Club. Our biggest project for many years – the refurbishment of almost a quarter of the Museum is entering the final phase – thank goodness. We deliberately put off tours of the Museum [where we could] whilst the work was being undertaken so that we could show the Museum off at its best. We are nearly there with the changes and we are working in the Tours as best we can. There seems to be a Tour every day we are open for the next few months at least. Whilst that’s good news it has put a lot of pressure on all the Volunteers. See article on progress below. One of the prizes at this year’s Foundation Day Lunch [9 September] for a lucky member is a ride in one of the Qantas Simulators at the Flight Training Centre at Airport West. Yes, you will be able to have a fly! More to come on the Founders Day Lunch which is on the actual anniversary date of TAA’s first scheduled revenue flight [DC-3 Hawdon] – so jot it in your diary now. Note there will be no Xmas function this year. A surprise visitor to the Museum recently was Hugh Tansley and his wife Linda – out to Australia for another visit, but this time to the TAA Museum to see Airbus A300 models – strange! Hugh was the Airbus Representative to TAA / Australian Airlines and spent most of his time here in Australia. After Hugh returned home [France I think] he sent an email saying “Thank you for your hospitality, and particularly for your patience when I wanted glass doors opened and items moved around, all for the sake of a "better" photograph. We both thoroughly enjoyed our time with you and it brought back all sorts of memories.” For the record – he hasn’t changed a bit. We had a number of signs up at the entrance to the Museum to draw visitor’s attention to our ‘not for profit’ status and hope that they would make a donation to the Museum. It seems that the spectacle of the Museum opening up before them drew them away from the donation advisories. Well, have we fixed that – thanks to some great work from Brain Cain [maker of the donations ‘hangar’] and Rick Schembri [maker of the electronic sign]. See story below. Alan Whatman has been slaving away for months now tracking down the history and whereabouts of all TAA’s aircraft. As you can imagine many of them have ‘gone to god’ through accidents, neglect, fire, crashes and parts ‘robbers’. We are planning to put the finished product [including pictures] on our web site so you can look-up the aircraft of your choice. TAA / Australian Airlines 25 Year Club Newsletter No. 101 May 2019 Editor: John Wren
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TAA/Australian Airlines 25 Year Club Inc ABN: 25 953 761 724 www.taamuseum.org.au 7 York Street, Airport West 3042 9280 8113 or 9280 8114 [email protected] Page 1
President’s Report
The typo gremlins crept into the last Newsletter regarding the number of B727-76’s we had in service. It
was six [VH-TJA, B, C, D, E & F], not 4. Thanks to all the members who very kindly drew my
attention to the typo.
As reported in the last Newsletter, four members had been elected at the AGM [Terry Masocco, Paul
Gluschenko, Dorothy Duan and Sam Favazza]. An existing Committeeman, Jim Collins [Treasurer],
has since resigned from Committee [and as a Volunteer] due to medical reasons following a long
operation. We all wish Jim well for the future and thank him for the many years of service to the 25
Year Club.
Our biggest project for many years – the refurbishment of almost a quarter of the Museum is entering
the final phase – thank goodness. We deliberately put off tours of the Museum [where we could] whilst
the work was being undertaken so that we could show the Museum off at its best. We are nearly there
with the changes and we are working in the Tours as best we can. There seems to be a Tour every day
we are open for the next few months at least. Whilst that’s good news it has put a lot of pressure on all
the Volunteers. See article on progress below.
One of the prizes at this year’s Foundation Day Lunch [9 September] for a lucky member is a ride in
one of the Qantas Simulators at the Flight Training Centre at Airport West. Yes, you will be able to
have a fly! More to come on the Founders Day Lunch which is on the actual anniversary date of TAA’s
first scheduled revenue flight [DC-3 Hawdon] – so jot it in your diary now. Note there will be no Xmas
function this year.
A surprise visitor to the Museum recently was Hugh Tansley and his wife Linda – out to Australia for
another visit, but this time to the TAA Museum to see Airbus A300 models – strange! Hugh was the
Airbus Representative to TAA / Australian Airlines and spent most of his time here in Australia. After
Hugh returned home [France I think] he sent an email saying “Thank you for your hospitality, and
particularly for your patience when I wanted glass doors opened and items moved around, all for the
sake of a "better" photograph. We both thoroughly enjoyed our time with you and it brought back all
sorts of memories.” For the record – he hasn’t changed a bit.
We had a number of signs up at the entrance to the Museum to draw visitor’s attention to our ‘not for
profit’ status and hope that they would make a donation to the Museum. It seems that the spectacle of
the Museum opening up before them drew them away from the donation advisories. Well, have we
fixed that – thanks to some great work from Brain Cain [maker of the donations ‘hangar’] and Rick
Schembri [maker of the electronic sign]. See story below.
Alan Whatman has been slaving away for months now tracking down the history and whereabouts of all
TAA’s aircraft. As you can imagine many of them have ‘gone to god’ through accidents, neglect, fire,
crashes and parts ‘robbers’. We are planning to put the finished product [including pictures] on our web
site so you can look-up the aircraft of your choice.